74 What You Please. 



Thou art the lady of these bowers ! 



'Mid books and music tliou dost dwell ; 

 'Mid purple hues and scented flowers, 



And rich delights thou lov'st so well. 

 Thy small white hand its rose doth bear, 



Thy neck its chain of orient pearl j 

 A bright, gem sparkles in thy hair, 

 Beautiful Girl ! 



Whoe'er thou art, a blessing be, 

 A Poet's blessing rest with thee. 



Benhall, August 23, 1831. 



When you read the title of the next poem, you will, I doubt not, thank 

 me for my merciful consideration in making it so short, seeing that I 

 could with perfect ease have filled the entire magazine. 



PLEASANT THINGS. 

 I. 



IT is a pleasant thing to look 



Thro' some red-rose shadowed pane, 

 Watching the gentle village brook 



Glimmer along the lane 

 Or dreaming o'er some antique book, 



Of thoughts a magic chain, 

 To bring the shepherd with his crook, 



The Hebrew shepherd back again ! 



ii. 



It is a pleasant thing to sit 



Upon a mossy stile, 

 And hear the timid linnet flit 



Among the leaves the while, 

 The village annals thinking o'er, 



How many fair and bright, 

 On that old stile have sat before 



In summer's fading light ! 



in. 



Beautiful in the green-wood straying, 



As carelessly we roam, 

 Suddenly our feet delaying, 



At the rising thought of home 

 Oh, pleasant to our eyes to see 



The sunlit oak beside, 

 Some face that memory knows will be 



A glad and willing guide. 



IV. 



It is a pleasant thing I ween, 



A golden tressed girl to see, 

 When on her face the purple sheen 



Of summer shineth tenderly ; 

 Perchance her glowing eyes may be 



Bent o'er some pictured scene of glory, 

 While you stand by, and suddenly 



She looketh up and asks the story. 



It is a pleasant thing- 

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I mean it would be a pleasant thing to go on writing at this rate till the 

 arrival of the Millenium. But unluckily the mail has arrived first, and 

 if I were to essay the editing of another verse nay, another line, I should 

 lose it. 



